Posted on 10/27/2004 10:14:37 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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Let’s let the nervous reporters at NBC off the hook.... As it happens, the 3rd Infantry Division arrived at al Qa Qaa a week earlier on Friday April 3rd, 2003. Published Reports from the Associated Press and CBS verify this news and leave no doubt that they took a long look around the sprawling facility. In fact according to the AP, Col. John Peabody made reporters aware that the 3rd ID had “found thousands of 2-by-5-inch boxes, each containing three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare.” Col. Peabody also informed CBS that, “they discovered atropine, used to counter the effects of nerve agents.” Some of you likely recall this story, as it was very big news at the time and all over network and cable news as any story that even resembled WMD captured entire news cycles.
Both reports are dated April 4th, 2003, but the New York Times omits them from their reporting.
So—here’s where we are. 380 tons of HMX and RDX were apparently located at al Qa Qaa at one time. The last time that Al Qa Qaa was looked at by the United Nations was March 15, 2003, four days before the war. The 3rd Infantry Division arrived on April 3rd 2003. When the 3rd ID .... That means the 3rd ID was on the lookout for WMD and would have been scouring the facility for any signs of explosives, conventional or otherwise. Some of the explosives may have been destroyed in bombings if any remained at Al Qa Qaa, but as the rest is missing that leaves an easy question—how was it moved out of the complex?..."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtondispatch.com ...
Also BRET BAIER reported on Fox, and this is a good point. Between the time the 3rd ID first looked and the time:
"U.S. weapons inspectors, the Iraq Survey Group, arrived at the site on May 27, conducting a full search of the 32 bunkers - and they did not find any of the IAEA-marked explosives."
This was the window of time to take the explosives if one assumes they were there after US Troops arrived. The original NY Times article estimates it would have taken 40 heavy trucks to carry it all. Although there was not a US unit guarding in Al Qaqaa, they did control all the roads leading in and out of the installation. There is no way they could make a movement like that and not be seen.
Please go to the site and read the whole article. It is well worth it. The excerpt requirements made me cut this to the bone.
Kerry deserves a politically fatal beating over this story. The closer you look at this story and how it came about, the more it stinks!
can someone post this photo....?
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerryspot.asp
nick
Keep thinking.....Maybe it's still there, buried/hidden under all that sand.
Kerry = Al Qaqaa, al the time.
I'm SO GLAD this whole issue came up. Really. I suspect that in his heart Kerry is not.
All the MSM did is validate Bush's claims that there were tons and tons and tons of dangerous stuff, dual-use "WMD type stuff (NUCLEAR TRIGGERS, FOR GOODNESS SAKE - ENOUGH TO GET THE IAEA'S ATTENTION, AND THEY AIN'T JUST TRAFFIC COPS), that could be looted and disappear (especially while the UN dithered for months). It also reminded people of the MSM's dishonesty and of Kerry's willingness to SAY ANYTHING to win, especially if it trashes US troops in the process.
They shot themselves in the foot, for sure. Anyone stupid to take the lies at face value was long in the Kerry camp anyway.
Kerry's lied about our military in 1971 and now he lies about them again in 2004. He was bad for America then and he is bad for America now. He is going down hard and the entire Democratic Party is going with him.
Naaaa, that's just his head buried up his ass!
MV
Wrong dork, wrong place, wrong time.
AND
Wrong face, wrong wife, wrong senate record, wrong vp, wrong daughter showing hooters, wrong, wrong wrong, etc..
Kerry is shameless...despite his outrageous lies.
So does the MSM
This is summed up perfectly. Thanks cvq, for nutshelling the whole debacle, or quagmire which ever word you like!
This should be in a commercial!
If I have to see that orange coat and that idiot closing his eyes when a ball comes again... I just don't know.
Which picture did you want posted?
"The closer you look at this story and how it came about, the more it stinks!"
When you consider that all this crap involves a place that everyone is pronouncing as "Al CaCa", it's not really surprising.
A part of me wonders if this wasn't a stroke of Rovian rope-a-dope comedic genius.
[feel free to poo-poo my Al CaCa theory, if you like]....:)
An excellent read! Hmmmmm...facts and common sense...now there's an interesting journalistic style!
I think it boils down to the fact that someone pulled the trigger on Kerry the Traitor's October Surprize.
I heard someone on Fox this morning make the comment that this amounts to "...a domestic Axis of Evil, featuring CBS, the New York Times, and the United Nations..."
How right they were!
Thanks very much - I am kinda having a run of "rants" on here today, and I'm glad that someone enjoyed some of it.
Rush has a caller on now reminding us of Colin Powell's presentation to the UN in Feb 2003 showing efforts to hide things - the call intercepts, etc. Weren't there trucks on satellite photos too?
One other thought, before I go back to work and make a little money and avoid being fired (!!!). Bush & co didn't always do the best job at getting out all the GOOD news from Iraq. I kinda wish I knew that there were 400,000 tons of explosives in Iraq and in that context (even apart from the slanderous "time line" issue) 380 tons is not a lot. the press made it sound like the mother lode, but it would have been handy if it were already common knowledge about the 400,000 tons.
Whatever. I care more about that Bush is DOING in Iraq than what he is saying about it. But at times better advertising beats a better product - ask any McIntosh user about Windows! Then again, Kerry is like New Coke - no amount of ads will sell this lemon.
So, I had a minor criticism of Bush. Sorry. I guess if he flubbed anything, we have to stay up until 10 or 11 on election night for our win instead of 9. I'm confident, but not cocky!
Have a good one!
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